Editorial policy
How Bitcoin Plaster handles sources, accuracy, claim support, updates, and corrections.
Commercial Transparency
Affiliate Disclosure
Bitcoin Plaster is a Bitcoin-only education publication, and some of its pages contain affiliate links, mostly hardware wallets and backup tools at the self-custody layer. If a reader buys a product or completes another qualifying action through one of those links, the site may earn a commission at no extra cost to the reader. That commercial model is disclosed here because, on a trust-sensitive topic where a reader may act on the page, a monetized link is part of the page's trust context rather than invisible plumbing.
The governing rule is one line: a product has to be useful, accurate, and defensible for the reader's situation before monetization is considered at all. Commissions help fund the research, testing, and maintenance behind the site, and that is legitimate, but only when it follows usefulness and disclosure, never when it decides them. The named page author remains responsible for the editorial judgment, while Frederick Staunch, as Editor-in-Chief, maintains final publication standards. Affiliate operations belong to the publication and do not make every author responsible for partner administration.
How affiliate links work
An affiliate link is a tracked link that may pay Bitcoin Plaster if a reader completes a qualifying action after clicking it. What counts as qualifying depends on the partner: usually a purchase, sometimes a signup or another defined action.
Where affiliate links are used, the site routes them through internal links such as /go/... rather than exposing raw affiliate URLs, which keeps the links cleaner, easier to maintain, and easier to audit. The principle is simple: if a link can earn the site money, the page makes that relationship visible.
Where disclosures appear
This page explains the site's general affiliate policy, but it does not replace page-level disclosure. When a page contains affiliate links, it carries a short, plain disclosure close to the link itself, in language a reader notices and understands before clicking, rather than buried in a footer or hidden behind a "read more".
A typical version reads:
Some links on this page are affiliate links. If you buy through them, Bitcoin Plaster may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
This follows the guidance of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that a material connection be disclosed clearly and conspicuously: close to the recommendation, in plain words, prominent enough to notice, and visible before the reader acts on the link rather than after.
What a commission does not buy
An affiliate relationship does not make a product better, and the absence of one does not make a product worse. Partner availability is a commercial fact, not recommendation authority, so a commission rate, a partner dashboard, or a payout possibility never counts as a reason a tool deserves coverage or a positive verdict.
Concretely, a commission does not buy favorable coverage, a positive conclusion, placement, silence about a product's weaknesses, invented hands-on testing, or softer treatment when the facts change. The test that settles it: if a recommendation would not stand without the affiliate program, the recommendation is not strong enough to publish.
Bitcoin Plaster is independent of the vendors it earns from, does not fabricate reviews, and does not hide a product's flaws or soften an unfavorable conclusion to protect a commission. The full method behind how products are evaluated, how first-hand claims are separated from source-based analysis, and how the pseudonymous author identities remain accountable is set out in the Editorial Policy, and monetized pages are held to it like any other.
Page types and selling
The site teaches across the whole holder's path, and most of that content carries no commercial intent at all. The money, Bitcoin-thesis, and holder-psychology pages teach first and, where a custody decision is the natural next step, route the reader internally toward the relevant page rather than pushing a link.
The product pages, which sit at the self-custody layer, are where clear, disclosed affiliate calls to action belong, once the product fit is legitimate. Trust, editorial, and correction pages are not affiliate funnels. A page about seed phrase safety does not pressure a reader toward a purchase before the reader understands the risk. A product page may recommend something, but only after the evaluation has earned the conclusion.
Reader cost
In a normal affiliate arrangement, the reader does not pay more because the site earns a commission. Price, checkout, shipping, warranty, refunds, discounts, taxes, and customer support are all controlled by the vendor, not by Bitcoin Plaster, so readers should check the vendor's current terms before buying.
The site can explain product fit and tradeoffs. It does not control the vendor's checkout or support.
No financial advice or custody
Nothing here is a personal recommendation to buy, sell, or hold Bitcoin, and an affiliate link does not change that. The site also gives no buy or sell signals, price targets, or timing calls.
Frederick Staunch, Angela Blake, and Meryl Staunch do not manage funds for readers, take custody of anyone's coins, or give individualized financial, tax, legal, estate-planning, investment, custody, or security advice. The site evaluates tools and explains tradeoffs. The decision, and the responsibility for it, stay with the reader.
Reporting a disclosure concern
A missing disclosure, an undisclosed link, a raw affiliate URL where an internal route should appear, or product coverage that reads as too commission-driven are all worth flagging, and the Contact & Corrections page is the route.
Concerns like these are part of the site's accountability surface, not an annoyance. Where a commercial relationship is unclear, the site would rather fix the page than keep a cleaner-looking paragraph that hides context the reader deserved to see. Reports go through the same corrections path that keeps the publication and all three author identities accountable.